{"id":46148,"date":"2022-07-08T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japanese-pm-shot-during-speech-video"},"modified":"2022-07-08T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:36:33","slug":"shinzo-abe-former-japanese-pm-shot-during-speech-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46148","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe, former Japanese PM, shot during speech \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s former prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed while making a speech, with reports and video footage suggesting that he had been shot before he fell to the ground. NHK, Japan\u2019s public broadcaster, said Abe \u2013 the country\u2019s longest-serving prime minister until he resigned in 2020 \u2013 appeared to be bleeding from the chest after being shot from behind with a shotgun on Friday morning. NHK said a man had been taken into custody but provided no further details. Abe had been in the city of Nara to make a campaign speech ahead of this Sunday\u2019s upper house elections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports\">Shinzo Abe, former Japan prime minister, shot during speech \u2013 report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japanese-pm-shot-during-speech-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s former prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed while making a speech, with reports and video footage suggesting that he had been shot before he fell to the ground. NHK, Japan\u2019s public broadcaster, said Abe \u2013 the country\u2019s longest-serving prime mini&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions\/46174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}